The semi-weekly fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1886-1887, 1887-11-11
THE NATIONAL GAME.

THE past season has been the greatest ever
knOwn baseball.
WASHINGTON has signed the excellent st.
Paul outfelder, Wllmot.
! THE New York League Club has started on
{ it's tour to the Pacific Slope
BALTIMORE has secured Shindle, Of De-
troit, and Shaw, Of Jersey City.
CHARLES farrell, of Marlboro, Mass, is a
new catcher for the Boston Club.
PITCHER WEIDMAN will again be League
twirler next season. New York has signed
him.
CINCINNATI has re signed Manager Schmelz.
Pitcher Vean, of Minneapolis, has also been
secured.
TIE Chicagos were at bat a less number of
times during the season than any other
league Club.
DETROIT won ten of the fifteen games
htyed with the st. LOUIS nine on the world IS
Championship.
THE Chicagos made 70 home runs during
the year; Detroits, 81; Philadelphias, 49;
New Yorks, 4S; Bostons, 53; Washingtons,
81; Pittsburg, 20; indianapolis, 30.
DURING the year the Detroits made 935
runs; Philadelphias, S97; Chicagos, SO7; New
Yorks, Sl4; Bostons, 1914; Pittsburgs, 621;
Washingtons, 600; Indianapolis, GIG.
BROOKLYN has a new man in Ed. Pelch
pitcher and outfielder of a Denver club.
| Darby, O'Bren, Holbert, Mays and Radford,
all of the Metropolitans, have also been
signed.
| HERE is the story of the winning of the
League pennant in a few lines: Base hits
| Detroit, 1,4O2; Philadelphia 1865; Chicago,
I 1,124; New York, 1,25S; Boston, 1877; Pitts
burg, 1,13O.
/ OFF Chicago pitchers during the year l. 1879
base hits were made; off Detroit pitchers,
! l.159; off Philadelphia, 1,116; off New York,
| l,056. Chicago and New York did not ap-
! pear to lack good pitching.
IL hx, fho
| ent League clubs during the pas season,
! were: Chicago 1,033; Detroit, S71; Phila-
| delphia 924; New York 1,069: Boston, l. 149
| Pittsburg, S41; Washington, SSl; Indianapo-
! lis, 1872.
| INDIANAPOLIS is the taiI-ender, but ST
made a larger number of double plays dui
| ing the year than any other League club, get
| ting 1913, Detroit 100, Philadelphia so, Chi
cago 1O3, New York 9S Boston 50, Pittsburg
| 81, W Washington 81.
THE Detroit sluggers generally 'found the
| ball, - only 24S OF them striking out during
the year, against 35l Philadelph ianS, 3D3 CHI
! cagoans 532 New Workers. 800 BoStOnians,
| 3S2 Pittsburgers, 373 WaShingtonians an / $40
! IndianaDoltans. Four hundred AMI thirty
! three earned runs were ma lie OF Detroit
| pitchers and only $50 off Chicago pitchers.
| THE se-stealing record of the League af-
! fords interesting reading. John Ward leads
! the entire League, with a record of 10 bases
| in l29 games; Fogarty is second. with 10j
OdSeS III 10 SduieS' anu LINZ heli5 oiAI "
| with 50 in 12I games Fifty-eight players
| did not reach double figures in the bases
sto en- column. and six did not steal a single
| base during the season
| THE contrast between the so, 0OO salary
! list of the Detroit team of 1887 and that OF
| the Cincinnati champions of 1859 is very
I striking The latter cOnta mel ten men. and
| he salary list amounted to -. 100. Henry
! Wright, as Manager, Captain ami PLAYER
| received 81 800; George Wright, short stop
! 81 SbO- and Rraicerl the % tchar 1900 anf
the othes from that down to $500.